I blame us. It’s our fault for reading, and attempting to craft, catchy and intriguing hooks and headlines. Being the literal monsters that they are, the researchers have mistakenly extracted from their data our preference for paradox and nonsense.
- We hate our humanity, are ashamed of it and burdened by it, and we beg "them" to replace it with mechanized processes (including thinking) that go way beyond convenience. They relieve us of our biggest burden: *discernment*. Too bad it is also our best talent.
- We engage in performative loops of cultural supremacy by echoing counterintuitive claims, to appear smarter than those "out of style" who scratch their heads instead of echoing along. Though many great truths are counterintuitive, these are counterfeit counterintuitions.
Your "hooks and headlines" are like novelty bait for the latter, and they are fed to us by "THE SCIENCE" machine of the former. I had not connected them before. Will be thinking about this...
I blame us. It’s our fault for reading, and attempting to craft, catchy and intriguing hooks and headlines. Being the literal monsters that they are, the researchers have mistakenly extracted from their data our preference for paradox and nonsense.
Yes! You just bridged two of my top concepts:
- We hate our humanity, are ashamed of it and burdened by it, and we beg "them" to replace it with mechanized processes (including thinking) that go way beyond convenience. They relieve us of our biggest burden: *discernment*. Too bad it is also our best talent.
- We engage in performative loops of cultural supremacy by echoing counterintuitive claims, to appear smarter than those "out of style" who scratch their heads instead of echoing along. Though many great truths are counterintuitive, these are counterfeit counterintuitions.
Your "hooks and headlines" are like novelty bait for the latter, and they are fed to us by "THE SCIENCE" machine of the former. I had not connected them before. Will be thinking about this...